Hello everyone Yesterday Sunday we flew out of Chicago at 9 am and arrived in Raleigh around 1150 am North Carolina time. We ate our last fattening meal of the week of Popeyes at the airport and hoped that drinking low calorie fruit smoothies would cancel out all the fat I figured if that didn't work the fat should surely melt away by the 95 degree weather Unfortunately our shuttle servi
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Don't have a lot of time for this update but I was so excited to hear that my sound was fixed that I had to post something John our sound tech is a miracle worker and hooked me up so that I can actually hear my voice coming through the monitors My voice is saved Tonight's show is You've Got A Friend which is all my Carole King and James Taylor songs rolled into an hour show. However
CHICHICHILELELE… VIVA CHILE
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Christina is Bionic
Wow ! Christina anguilera becomes a CYBORG !..or rather...BIONIC as per her new album ! real cool ! heard the album isn't doing too good in the charts, but who cares ! you rock as far as this blog is concerned !
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Gulf Biodiversity Greatly Endangered by Oil Leak
Oil, you done me wrong.
“President Obama said that the U.S. could “potentially preserve” the Gulf Coast estuaries and marshes “so that, three years from now, things have come back,” a panel of ocean specialists strongly disputed that time frame, calling the 36-month prediction “wildly optimistic.” Obama made the statement in an interview with Matt Lauer on The Today Show.
–From the FiscalTimes
How bad is the environmental damage to the Gulf? It’s bad all over, in the marshes and in the water. I recently read an AP story that reported dolphins and sharks and other larger marine life are now congregating near the shores, in surprisingly shallow waters off the Gulf coast states. At least one whale has been found dead, and around 41 dolphins have been found dead. It is speculated that many of the animals are dying and sinking to the bottom of the Gulf farther out. Greenpeace reported that dozens of dolphins were seen swimming and playing in oil-sheened water near Grand Isle.
When dolphins move closer in to shore it means that their habitat is extremely polluted, and they are fleeing fouled water in search of a livable environment. A big danger of oil and dispersant-polluted water in the Gulf is that it may deplete the oxygen, causing mass die-offs of all sizes and kinds of marine life. It may also make these “dead zones” more or less permanent.
In the following interview, scientist Thomas Shirley describes the damage to the Gulf of Mexico ecosystems. He’s optimistic the Gulf will recover, though he thinks the damage will be long-term. After an excerpt of the interview, which is taken from Yale e360, you’ll find a short paper he wrote in May 2010 on the biodiversity of the Gulf.
Interview: The Spill’s Growing Toll On Marine Life in the Gulf of Mexico
Tom Shirley says that, despite the Gulf’s warm waters and indigenous population of oil-eating microbes, the impacts of this oil spill are likely to be felt for a long, long time — especially if a hurricane blows the oil deep into Gulf Coast wetlands. “If this oil spill ends up back in the marsh areas that are nurseries for a lot of these species, we will see very long-term effects,” says Shirley, who also studied the impacts of another famous oil spill — the Exxon Valdez off the coast of Alaska. “Twenty-one years later we still see effects [of the Exxon Valdez]. I predict long-term effects here.”
Yale Environment 360: Given your recent survey of the marine biology of almost the entire Gulf, what’s your assessment of the damage to date?
Thomas Shirley: Well, I really don’t have hard data on damage. The only thing we have so far are body counts of the oiled birds, questionable data about the causes of deaths of many marine turtles and a few marine mammals. But, no doubt with [...]
Various works by Karol Bak
Karol Bak is a polish artist currently working out of Poznan, Poland. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan and graduated in 1989. His figurative works are inspired by myth and mythology. You can view more of Karol’s work by visiting the links below.
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